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Proceed Content Solutions
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Who are Proceed?
What we do
Proceed’s team of SAP Consultants based across Europe, North
America, South Africa and India are all experienced SAP solutions
experts.
Our success is attributed to this and the fact that we specialise,
specifically in this area. We know our business so we can help you
make the best of yours.
As IT systems evolve there is an ever growing need to manage
business data and documents within SAP environments.
Correctly managing SAP structured and unstructured data can
greatly reduce the cost and complexity of running your key business
systems.
Our expertise in SAP and non-SAP content management will help you to:
n Plan and implement a SAP content storage solution
n Reduce your on-going IT maintenance costs
n Access archived business data quickly and easily
n Enhance your business processes with quick and
easy access to related business documents
n Mitigate risk and increase legal compliance
SAP content management by ProceedProceed deliver a clear and structured approach to SAP content management,
providing everything you need to deliver a successful project with great ROI
and ongoing business benefits.
By combining proven best practice, innovative tools, and SAP add-on
applications, we tailor solutions and services that meet specific business needs.
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What we do (c0nt.)
Our goals
n Lower application licensing fees
n Streamline your data for efficient IT operations
n Compress and control your application data and
business documents
n Reduce energy consumption delivering green IT
n Deliver a successful project, with a great ROI
Our consultants are experienced in the deployment and
management of SAP content and data solutions. Making best use
of SAP certified content storage platforms we aim to provide the
greatest business benefits with the minimum spend.
Proceed consultants have many years of experience in deploying
and supporting SAP content solutions, specialising in plugging
the skills gaps between the dedicated SAP system integrators and
Content Storage provider consultants.
Our consultants analyse the business requirements to advise our
customer on the best approach for content storage within their SAP
environments.
We deliver the appropriate technology providing users with the tools
they require to support key business processes whilst allowing them
to discard the data they no longer need.
Our team will keep the customer informed throughout the process
and ensure a smooth project with continuing support.
Our consultants
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Global presence
With offices and consultants deployed around the globe, Proceed
has the capability to facilitate projects worldwide.
Our multilingual consultants integrate well with the customers’
project teams working in partnership with our customers and their
business partners.
Having a global presence enables us to be conversant with the legal
and regulatory requirements of customers for their specific country
requirements.
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Cloud solutions Proceed’s Content as a Service provides a comprehensive and very
cost-effective solution for customers to move their content solutions
into the cloud.
This can be delivered to either a private cloud managed by the
customer, or public cloud managed by Proceed.
Content as a Service can provide an easily accessed cost-effective
solution.
Proceed partners with multiple cloud hosting companies to provide
a global Cloud presence for its customers.
Content as a Service benefits: n Hosted in cloud located around the world including the UK
and Germany
n Fully managed solution as a service
n Platform supports storage of documents, traditional data
archiving, and SAP ILM
n Consumption based model, keeping TCO costs low
n Document compliance kept in-line with business data
retention rules
n Future proof solution (including S/4HANA and beyond)
n Deployment options:
> Migration of existing content solution onto the platform with expert
support, minimising risk and reducing legacy support costs.
> Managed switch over and deployment services for smooth
implementation.
Our servicesProceed provide the following services to ensure a smooth delivery of both
solution and ongoing support of SAP content solutions.
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One of the big issues all companies face is the efficient and prompt
payment of Vendor Invoice Documents. Proceed have partnered
with OpenText to bring a best in breed Vendor Invoice processing
solution which can accommodate paper, email and EDI invoices to
provide a common integrated Invoice Processing platform, ensuring
invoices are validated and posted into the SAP environment ready
for payment.
Included in the service:
n Design the Vendor Invoice Management Solution to meet your
business requirements.
n Design the required content storage for the Vendor Invoice
Management solution.
n Design the data capture solution for the Invoice Documents
(OCR extraction).
n Deploy the designed solution into your company’s SAP
environment. > Installation of Open Text Vendor Invoice Management add-on
> Configuration of Vendor Invoice Management by Open Text
to meet your company’s requirements
> Installation of Open Text Invoice Capture Centre (if required by
the design)
> Configuration of Open Text Invoice Capture Centre (if required
by the design)
> Support of the Vendor Invoice Management solution for
one-month post project go live
n Deployment of the designed content storage solution onto your
existing on premise or hosted platform.
n Support of deployed content storage solution during the duration
of the Document content project and the first month post project
go live.
n A tailored ongoing support service.
n Knowledge transfer and training for support staff to enable them
to manage and support the solution going forward.
Vendor invoice management by OpenText
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Any successful business needs to manage and control electronic
documents as part of an overall content management solution,
integrating these with their core business processes. To support this
requirement, Proceed has partnered with OpenText to provide and
support Extended ECM for SAP.
Included in the service:
n Sizing and Design of a suitable SAP Extended ECM solution by
OpenText to meet your business requirements.
n Deployment of the designed content storage solution onto your
existing on premise cloud or hosted platforms.
n Support of deployed content storage solution during the duration
of the Document content project and the first month post the
project go live date.
n Knowledge transfer and training for support staff to enable them
to manage and support the solution going forward.
When customers have an existing content storage platform and are
migrating to a new content storage platform, because the index
data is managed within SAP many content migration solutions
cannot perform a successful migration of the content resulting in
the need to update SAP to point to the migrated content.
Proceed has a suite of content migration solutions designed
specifically for SAP to allow the content data to be migrated from
any SAP certified server to any other SAP certified server regardless
of content server vendor or design.
Included in the service:
n Review content migration requirements.
n Deployment of the correct tools to meet the requirements of
the migration.
n Migration of the content from the source content server to the
target content server.
n Validation of the content migration reporting to the customer any
failures and total success of the migration.
n Support for issues with the migrated content for the first month
following the completion of the migration.
Extended ECM by OpenText for SAP
SAP content migration
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There are times when there are advantages to sharing SAP business
data and documents with your business office users to allow for a
smooth end to end business process. With our certified partners,
Proceed can take your SAP environment and extend it into the
SharePoint portal.
Included in the service.
n Review business requirements for sharing data and documents.
n Design the best solution to meet the business requirements.
n Deployment of the correct tools to meet these requirements.
n Support of the deployed content storage solution during the
duration of the project and the first month post the project go
live.
n A tailored ongoing support service.
n Knowledge transfer and training for support staff to enable them
to manage and support the solution going forward.
At the core of a successful content management solution is the
design of the infrastructure and deployment of the solution. During
this phase of a project the business requirements for integration,
storage and retention will be discussed and agreed in detail. This
will lead into a well-designed platform which meets the current and
future business requirements.
The design considers the key data management and retention
requirement for both structured business data and documents.
Once the content storage solution has been designed to meet the
key business requirements, Proceed consultants deploy the SAP
certified content storage solution and integrate the solution within
the customers SAP landscape as a complementary component to
their existing SAP solution.
SAP integration with SharePoint
Analysis and design
Solution storage deployment
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As the content storage solution becomes part of the key business
processes it becomes a mission critical system which requires
specific support and maintenance. To enable continued business
success and maximising ROI Proceed can either train your existing
support teams or provide specialised ongoing support services
tailored to your own environment. This will ensure that the content
storage environment remains stable and secure.
SAP Content Storage As part of any successful SAP implementation,
there is always a requirement for a stable and secure storage
platform for both documents and structured business data. Proceed
can help design and implement a content storage solution for your
company which delivers the best in breed solutions following best
practices.
Included in the service
n Sizing and Design of a suitable SAP Certified content storage
solution for your company’s managed structured data and
documents
n Deployment of the designed content storage solution onto your
existing on premise, cloud, or hosted platform. We can also assist
in the deployment of a managed cloud solution
n Support of the deployed content storage solution during the
project or as an ongoing service contract
n Knowledge transfer and training for key business users and
support staff to enable your business investment in the platform
to be maximised
Contact us if you would like to begin discussions on what content
management strategy is right for your business.
Content storage management and support
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For further information on our Content Solutions contact us here:
Proceed Content Solutions
400 Thames Valley Park Drive
Thames Valley Park
Reading
Berkshire
RG6 1PT
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0) 118 207 9734
Email: [email protected]
www.proceedgroup.com